Designing the PCB

Designed my first PCB today, a custom macropad built around a Seeeduino, EC11 rotary encoder, a 0.91” OLED display, and standard switches. Used the Adafruit Macropad RP2040 as a reference for layout and size, then adapted it to my components. First-time PCB design means a lot of time spent figuring out footprints, trace routing, and why KiCad was doing something unexpected, but it clicked eventually. Case design is next, and that might actually take longer since I haven’t locked in an aesthetic yet.